Magnesium isotope geochemistry has emerged as a pivotal tool in deciphering Earth’s surface and subsurface processes, particularly in the context of chemical weathering. By studying the subtle ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, No. 1 (January 2, 2019), pp. 73-78 (6 pages) We report high-precision Mg isotopic analyses of different types ...

In collaboration with an international team of researchers, Michigan State University has helped create the world’s lightest version, or isotope, of magnesium to date. Forged at the National ...

Magnesium isotope geochemistry has emerged as a fundamental tool for decoding the complex pathways of elemental cycling in marine environments. The isotopic composition of magnesium (commonly reported ...

A study of magnesium stable isotopes in lunar rock samples finds that the oldest known samples contain isotope signatures similar to the known bulk magnesium isotope composition of the Inner Solar ...

A study of tooth enamel in mammals living today in the equatorial forest of Gabon could ultimately shed light on the diet of long extinct animals, according to new research. The researchers found that ...

Researchers have created three never-before-observed isotopes of magnesium and aluminum. The results not only stake out new territory on the nuclear landscape, but also suggest that variants of ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 109, No. 5 (January 31, 2012), pp. 1437-1442 (6 pages) The influence of isotopically enriched magnesium on the ...

CARBON-12 AND -14. Oxygen-16 and -18. Phosphorus-31 and -32. Add one or two neutrons to an element, and it creates another isotope. But what about adding 14 or more neutrons to a light atom? That ...

Researchers at Michigan State University say they have achieved, if not the impossible, then at least the improbable, briefly creating exotic new versions of atomic nuclei that some scientists thought ...

Nuclear physicists have long been producing new isotopes by trying to cram as many neutrons as possible into them. But there is a limit to how many neutrons that can be squeezed into a nucleus with a ...

This spring, the American Chemical Society named two new National Historic Chemical Landmarks (NHCLs) as part of their program that tells the stories of, and acts as a record of, the contributions of ...